Electric guitar · solidbody
| Body Style | solidbody |
| Body | swamp ash or alder or mahogany with rarewood top option |
| Neck | Canadian hard-rock maple |
| Fingerboard | maple |
| Neck Pickup | Sandberg Single Coil 60's VP (Alnico 5) |
| Middle Pickup | Sandberg Single Coil 60's VP (Alnico 5) |
| Bridge Pickup | Sandberg Single Coil 60's VP (Alnico 5) |
| Pickup Switch | 5-way switch for pickup selection |
| Controls | 5-way switch, 2 x passive tone |
| Construction | bolt-on (4 bolts) |
| Bridge | Wilkinson WVPSB tremolo; Kluson Lockheads tuners |
| Made In | Germany |
Artists documented playing the Sandberg California STS: Thomas Risell.